Actually, the man most credited with creaing anime , Osamu Tezuka, learned how to draw when he was young by copying pictures of American cartoons such as Felix the cat.
you might know a few of his works firsthand, like Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom,) and Kimba the White Lion (Jungle Taitei.)
It's not that all the anime characters are "anglos," it's just that most anime has a similar style at the basic points. (Some don't, like most stuff from studio Ghibli such as Princess Mononoke. You should see that in stores in about a month. Also Serial Experiments Lain uses a much more realistic style.)
Actually, you should get the graphic novel from Dark Horse. I was pretty unimpressed with the movie, but once I read the graphic novel I was absolutely shocked that the movie had so much coolness cut out of it.
It's much funnier, much deeper, and like Shirow's manga tends to be, it makes a lot more sense.
You CAN do the equivalent of killing and restarting X. Click the start button, select Shut Down, and when it pops open the option box, select Restart. Now, instead of just clicking Ok, hold shift down while clicking it. You'll drop to a dos-like state for a second, and Windows will come back online.
I think I'd look into getting a copy if there were populated, free servers. I remember looking at EQ and thinking "hey, that looks like it could be pretty fun. No way I'm going to pay to play though."
How many times do they want us to buy their products? I can understand that they probably keep their systems working a lot smoother than battle.net, but still, when I buy a game, I want it to be mine.
Actually, if by "drums," you mean 20+ foot long concrete pipes coated in metal, there are interesting facts about them (of course):
Apparently on ships in the US navy, they would cause the ship to turn to one side due to gyroscopic forces when they had several aboard. I think they got nicknamed "rotation storage batteries" or something like that. That was until they had equal numbers turning the opposite direction.
Also, there was a window all the way up the side so you could see a head crash (many heads, you're not going to take it apart and check each one!)
You'd just look for the band of sparks around the pipe at one point as the head drags on the (not perfectly smooth,) pipe.
Absolutely. Not only that, but news programs on TV seldom cover what I'm interested in.
Also, the sanitization is (I hesitate to use this word, but...) offensive. I find it really insulting to my intelligence. They should either report a story in it's entirety, or stay away from it.
It's a gunning platform called "The Principality of Sealand." The company is called HavenCo, and they would have absolutely no problem hosting something like DeCSS, as their rules are:
No spam
No kiddie porn
They'll also pull the content if someone shoots at them (and is a threat.)
I actually saw a picture of the place once, and there isn't even an island there, it's just a platform on 2 enormous concrete pillars. It looks pretty cool.
BTW, it'd cost you through the nose to host anything there as it's not cheap for them either.
Microsoft makes some pretty sweet hardware, it's just their software that sucks so far. Easily the best mouses* I've bought are MS, and they last years on end, are more ergonomic than others (excluding Logitech,) and the IntelliEye is pretty sweet.
They make some nice game controllers too.
I call it "the 3dfx sickness," because IMHO, 3dfx makes some sweet hardware. It just takes them years before the drivers catch up to that hardware. (I got a Voodoo 3 3500, and I'm still waiting...)
* I say "mice" if I'm talking about the creature; the same way I say "virii" if talking about the programs.
I think it's going to be great despite the AMD-owned naysayers' predictions. Really, I don't know why people go against Intel, and constantly bash them, yet continue to use IBM-compatible systems. After all, AMD, Cyrix, Winchip, etc... are all INTEL COMPATIBLE, not IBM compatible. Intel makes the x86 chipset (x being a variable, not part of a trademark, "x86" from Cyrix.)
When was the last time you saw a program that would only run on an AMD chipset? I actually have a few that only do Intel. (Yeah, it's weird, but so are the programs.)
I think that while the 1GHz P3 was just showing off, 2GHz P4s are likely... just not for at least a year, so they have time to debug them.
(*Shudders remembering the 200MHz 6x86 Cyrix chip that slowly burned out while doing disk maintenance, arrrgh.)
About a month ago I set up a few new Inspirons (Dell model) with this screen on them, and it was just freakish. My default, they were at top-res, and moving the mouse was like running through a football field. Especially considering the monster-screens on those things. (I'm used to very old laptops. These ones were 15".)
Funny though, that even after a minute of photo-quality screen use, everything seemed crunched together when I set it for 800x600.
True. When Gnutella specifically, was developed, it was built to be tough. You can change the port it runs on (aww, too bad, guess the firewall will have to read every packet on every port now...), but it's completely stupid that they would sue AOL over it's release.
After all, didn't AOL shut the whole thing down after it'd been out for half a day? (And again, Gnutella is tough. It'd probably even work by now if they kept updating it.)
I've thought for a long time that it would be cool to write a gag program for a motorized-feedback mouse that makes it run off the edge of the desk when it's been idle for too long.
Well, on my home PC, I have a DVD drive, a CDRW, a nd 13GB, 5GB, and 20GB hard drives. I just bought a Promise UDMA66 controller, and off I went!
(Sure, I had to install a card in my IRQ-depleted box, but I would have had to do the same to get SCSI. It just would have cost a LOT more, and been way harder to set up.)
Of all the things to be leaked, this seems the least significant thing possible. I hope Lucas doesn't take it out of control and end up pulling an Apple on whoever did it.
You're pulling the Elvis line and the line preceeding it from an old "Why Mac" book that quoted various users when they were asked why they liked their Macs so much. These are some of the more obscure ones even - At elast mentions the stories people told in the book about having mountains of hardware all connected with no IRQ conflicts, etc - the real meat of the subject.
"Why mac" happened to be one of the peices of propaganda I had laying around. It WAS a customer quote in the book though. I don't remember seeing anything about having mountains of hardware without conflicts, though it might have been in there. Actually, a friend of mine has a G3, and he had to re-flash the ROM chip in his Voodoo 3 to make it work with a mac. It takes a fair bit of fighting to upgrade any hardware in his G3. (His ATI All-in-Wonder can't use it's own tuner box, and his CDRW drive is quite succeptable to radio interference.)
So these 'Vague Statements' weren't even created by Apple, they just included what some USERS said in promotional materials.
Could be, maybe not. You know the phone psychic ads with people going "Oh wow, how could you know something so specific about me? That's incredible!" They're an easy way to get away with advertising anything; just make it look like a customer said it, and it's no longer an official company claim.
Also, about mudslinging - that doesn't seem very low-down-and-dirty to me. The '1984' commercial was more of a bandwagon technique - saying not to jsut go with the flow, be different, use a Mac.
...by showing the mindless legions of conformist IBM drones that all look alike, dress alike, and take orders from a big face on a screen. Believe me, I was into IBMs back then, and most of the users were the most unique people I know of (because computers in general weren't too mainstream.)
Pentium-toasting? That's more related to your 'specs' beef - and this is still nothing like the 'Pentiums aren't dolphin-safe' or anything liek that. geez...
No, I mean the commercial with the flaming Intel guy, and the fire extinguisher. I tried to find it on the Apple site, but I couldn't. (Jobs is right though, it does look tastier than the MS site.;) ) It has nothing to do with specs. I also remembered the poster with the Pentium snail on it. Going to www.adcritic.com, I couldn't find a single IBM/intel/etc.. ad that mentioned Apple. (though I haven't watched them all, I checked out some intel ads.)
Either way, my point is that Apple lowers themselves to things like that, and it still doesn't do them any good. Like I said in my original post, the Macs themselves are great for some things. My main problem is with the marketing dept. (I wouldn't care if the just insulted IBMs, but at least have some proof of superiority that can't be shot down.)
Personally, there are numerous reasons I wouldn't buy a Mac for desktop OR server use:
Performance:
The macs have great performance in a few key areas... I've never seen a better system for video editing. Other than that, I'm sorely disappointed with what they have to offer.
Customization:
The G3 line was a great leap in the right direction; pull a tab, and down swings the motherboard. Aside from these new systems (and even somewhat including,) there's just not enough room to get the parts you really want. Sure, there are a few obscure clones, but they're VERY obscure. Last one I heard of was a company in Germany 4 years ago. Building a PC, you can get every part from a range of vendors, and make something just right from scratch.
Price:
Ye gods! Apple must have a great towering ego to charge THAT much! Maybe it would be better if there were more choices for parts; more competition. For the price of a top-of-the-line Apple desktop, I could build 2 PCs that outperform it ridiculously.
Marketing:
This is a big point for me, and even if I liked the hardware/software, I'd avoid them for this.
It seems that their marketing plan is:
-Mudslinging
From their very first commercial "See why 1984 won't be like '1984.'" all the way through "we apologise for toasting the Pentium in public." and up to the current ads. They're like a newsgroup troll that's latched onto someone and won't let go... like the JonKatz bashers on/.
-Vague unprovable statements
"Connects to a Microsoft network better than a Windows machine"
"Why do I like Macintosh over Windows? You can put sideburns and a beer gut on a 50 year old guy, but that don't make Elvis." (huh?!)
Also, does anyone have the current official specs on what makes a supercomputer? I'm fairly sure they've raised the bar, but I have no proof.
-Boldfaced lies
When they were claiming the iBook was toasting current Pentium systems on benchmarks, they neglected to say that the test they ran was written in C, and easily affected by compiler optimization, that it beat Pentiums in ONE category, and that other more standardized benchmarks made the iBook beg for mercy. "oops."
-Stats
(Good, useful advertising. Also hard to find. I have no complaint with these, I just wish they'd use them more.)
(If Mac users are going to flame me for this, do the research first. Prove that I'm wrong. I'm writing this from memory so I may have made some mistakes, but "PeeCees suk, d00d!" isn't exactly going to change my mind on anything.)
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Actually, the man most credited with creaing anime , Osamu Tezuka, learned how to draw when he was young by copying pictures of American cartoons such as Felix the cat.
you might know a few of his works firsthand, like Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom,) and Kimba the White Lion (Jungle Taitei.)
It's not that all the anime characters are "anglos," it's just that most anime has a similar style at the basic points. (Some don't, like most stuff from studio Ghibli such as Princess Mononoke. You should see that in stores in about a month. Also Serial Experiments Lain uses a much more realistic style.)
Actually, you should get the graphic novel from Dark Horse. I was pretty unimpressed with the movie, but once I read the graphic novel I was absolutely shocked that the movie had so much coolness cut out of it.
It's much funnier, much deeper, and like Shirow's manga tends to be, it makes a lot more sense.
"We're under attack! Prepare the Sinclair 1000's... WITH 16k RAM packs! Mwahahahahahaaa!"
"Uh... sir, I bumped it by accident."
"Whaat? The RAM module was bumped? All those hours of coding lost! We have been defeated."
You CAN do the equivalent of killing and restarting X. Click the start button, select Shut Down, and when it pops open the option box, select Restart. Now, instead of just clicking Ok, hold shift down while clicking it. You'll drop to a dos-like state for a second, and Windows will come back online.
I think I'd look into getting a copy if there were populated, free servers. I remember looking at EQ and thinking "hey, that looks like it could be pretty fun. No way I'm going to pay to play though."
How many times do they want us to buy their products? I can understand that they probably keep their systems working a lot smoother than battle.net, but still, when I buy a game, I want it to be mine.
Yeah, Ed's pretty awesome.
Faye: You're playing that game again?
Ed: Not again, still.
Faye: Huh? You've been playing it all WEEK?
True, but while it was very easy, the Ghost in the Shell game was very cool... if you can find it.
Wasn't OS/2 warp the first "internet ready" OS?
Actually, if by "drums," you mean 20+ foot long concrete pipes coated in metal, there are interesting facts about them (of course):
Apparently on ships in the US navy, they would cause the ship to turn to one side due to gyroscopic forces when they had several aboard. I think they got nicknamed "rotation storage batteries" or something like that. That was until they had equal numbers turning the opposite direction.
Also, there was a window all the way up the side so you could see a head crash (many heads, you're not going to take it apart and check each one!)
You'd just look for the band of sparks around the pipe at one point as the head drags on the (not perfectly smooth,) pipe.
Absolutely. Not only that, but news programs on TV seldom cover what I'm interested in.
Also, the sanitization is (I hesitate to use this word, but...) offensive. I find it really insulting to my intelligence. They should either report a story in it's entirety, or stay away from it.
I've seen pictures from genocides taking place in Africa. I didn't enjoy seeing them, but just one picture said more than the hundreds of news stories that were showing stock-footage of peaceful villages, and making sure everything was politically correct. How can one expect people to grow up properly adjusted when they don't even have a clue what's going on all around them?
Arrrrgh!
It's a gunning platform called "The Principality of Sealand." The company is called HavenCo, and they would have absolutely no problem hosting something like DeCSS, as their rules are:
No spam
No kiddie porn
They'll also pull the content if someone shoots at them (and is a threat.)
I actually saw a picture of the place once, and there isn't even an island there, it's just a platform on 2 enormous concrete pillars. It looks pretty cool.
BTW, it'd cost you through the nose to host anything there as it's not cheap for them either.
Microsoft makes some pretty sweet hardware, it's just their software that sucks so far. Easily the best mouses* I've bought are MS, and they last years on end, are more ergonomic than others (excluding Logitech,) and the IntelliEye is pretty sweet.
They make some nice game controllers too.
I call it "the 3dfx sickness," because IMHO, 3dfx makes some sweet hardware. It just takes them years before the drivers catch up to that hardware. (I got a Voodoo 3 3500, and I'm still waiting...)
* I say "mice" if I'm talking about the creature; the same way I say "virii" if talking about the programs.
My mistake, the screen was one step below that, and almost unusably sharp. Ye gods! The new ones are crazy!
I think it's going to be great despite the AMD-owned naysayers' predictions. Really, I don't know why people go against Intel, and constantly bash them, yet continue to use IBM-compatible systems. After all, AMD, Cyrix, Winchip, etc... are all INTEL COMPATIBLE, not IBM compatible. Intel makes the x86 chipset (x being a variable, not part of a trademark, "x86" from Cyrix.)
When was the last time you saw a program that would only run on an AMD chipset? I actually have a few that only do Intel. (Yeah, it's weird, but so are the programs.)
I think that while the 1GHz P3 was just showing off, 2GHz P4s are likely... just not for at least a year, so they have time to debug them.
(*Shudders remembering the 200MHz 6x86 Cyrix chip that slowly burned out while doing disk maintenance, arrrgh.)
About a month ago I set up a few new Inspirons (Dell model) with this screen on them, and it was just freakish. My default, they were at top-res, and moving the mouse was like running through a football field. Especially considering the monster-screens on those things. (I'm used to very old laptops. These ones were 15".)
Funny though, that even after a minute of photo-quality screen use, everything seemed crunched together when I set it for 800x600.
True. When Gnutella specifically, was developed, it was built to be tough. You can change the port it runs on (aww, too bad, guess the firewall will have to read every packet on every port now...), but it's completely stupid that they would sue AOL over it's release.
After all, didn't AOL shut the whole thing down after it'd been out for half a day? (And again, Gnutella is tough. It'd probably even work by now if they kept updating it.)
...that it somehow tracks your scanning habits and reports them back to Radio Shack.
I may be paranoid, but these days, does that mean I'm wrong?
I've thought for a long time that it would be cool to write a gag program for a motorized-feedback mouse that makes it run off the edge of the desk when it's been idle for too long.
Well, on my home PC, I have a DVD drive, a CDRW, a nd 13GB, 5GB, and 20GB hard drives. I just bought a Promise UDMA66 controller, and off I went!
(Sure, I had to install a card in my IRQ-depleted box, but I would have had to do the same to get SCSI. It just would have cost a LOT more, and been way harder to set up.)
Are you kidding? That doom adaptation itself is scary! When he was testing it, csh took friendly fire and died! ^o^
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
Of all the things to be leaked, this seems the least significant thing possible. I hope Lucas doesn't take it out of control and end up pulling an Apple on whoever did it.
THEY WHAT???
Man, I'd love to see someone dig out their old CGA screen and take LSL1 (non-VGA version) to court. ^o^
"Your honor, I don't believe anyone could be harmed by 1/4" 16-color pixels."
"Are you kidding, look at that explicit display of... of... what IS that?"
"That's a door."
"oh, I see."
You're pulling the Elvis line and the line preceeding it from an old "Why Mac" book that quoted various users when they were asked why they liked their Macs so much. These are some of the more obscure ones even - At elast mentions the stories people told in the book about having mountains of hardware all connected with no IRQ conflicts, etc - the real meat of the subject.
;) ) It has nothing to do with specs. I also remembered the poster with the Pentium snail on it. Going to www.adcritic.com, I couldn't find a single IBM/intel/etc.. ad that mentioned Apple. (though I haven't watched them all, I checked out some intel ads.)
"Why mac" happened to be one of the peices of propaganda I had laying around. It WAS a customer quote in the book though. I don't remember seeing anything about having mountains of hardware without conflicts, though it might have been in there. Actually, a friend of mine has a G3, and he had to re-flash the ROM chip in his Voodoo 3 to make it work with a mac. It takes a fair bit of fighting to upgrade any hardware in his G3. (His ATI All-in-Wonder can't use it's own tuner box, and his CDRW drive is quite succeptable to radio interference.)
So these 'Vague Statements' weren't even created by Apple, they just included what some USERS said in promotional materials.
Could be, maybe not. You know the phone psychic ads with people going "Oh wow, how could you know something so specific about me? That's incredible!" They're an easy way to get away with advertising anything; just make it look like a customer said it, and it's no longer an official company claim.
Also, about mudslinging - that doesn't seem very low-down-and-dirty to me. The '1984' commercial was more of a bandwagon technique - saying not to jsut go with the flow, be different, use a Mac.
...by showing the mindless legions of conformist IBM drones that all look alike, dress alike, and take orders from a big face on a screen. Believe me, I was into IBMs back then, and most of the users were the most unique people I know of (because computers in general weren't too mainstream.)
Pentium-toasting? That's more related to your 'specs' beef - and this is still nothing like the 'Pentiums aren't dolphin-safe' or anything liek that. geez...
No, I mean the commercial with the flaming Intel guy, and the fire extinguisher. I tried to find it on the Apple site, but I couldn't. (Jobs is right though, it does look tastier than the MS site.
Either way, my point is that Apple lowers themselves to things like that, and it still doesn't do them any good. Like I said in my original post, the Macs themselves are great for some things. My main problem is with the marketing dept. (I wouldn't care if the just insulted IBMs, but at least have some proof of superiority that can't be shot down.)
Personally, there are numerous reasons I wouldn't buy a Mac for desktop OR server use:
/.
Performance:
The macs have great performance in a few key areas... I've never seen a better system for video editing. Other than that, I'm sorely disappointed with what they have to offer.
Customization:
The G3 line was a great leap in the right direction; pull a tab, and down swings the motherboard. Aside from these new systems (and even somewhat including,) there's just not enough room to get the parts you really want. Sure, there are a few obscure clones, but they're VERY obscure. Last one I heard of was a company in Germany 4 years ago. Building a PC, you can get every part from a range of vendors, and make something just right from scratch.
Price:
Ye gods! Apple must have a great towering ego to charge THAT much! Maybe it would be better if there were more choices for parts; more competition. For the price of a top-of-the-line Apple desktop, I could build 2 PCs that outperform it ridiculously.
Marketing:
This is a big point for me, and even if I liked the hardware/software, I'd avoid them for this.
It seems that their marketing plan is:
-Mudslinging
From their very first commercial "See why 1984 won't be like '1984.'" all the way through "we apologise for toasting the Pentium in public." and up to the current ads. They're like a newsgroup troll that's latched onto someone and won't let go... like the JonKatz bashers on
-Vague unprovable statements
"Connects to a Microsoft network better than a Windows machine"
"Why do I like Macintosh over Windows? You can put sideburns and a beer gut on a 50 year old guy, but that don't make Elvis." (huh?!)
Also, does anyone have the current official specs on what makes a supercomputer? I'm fairly sure they've raised the bar, but I have no proof.
-Boldfaced lies
When they were claiming the iBook was toasting current Pentium systems on benchmarks, they neglected to say that the test they ran was written in C, and easily affected by compiler optimization, that it beat Pentiums in ONE category, and that other more standardized benchmarks made the iBook beg for mercy. "oops."
-Stats
(Good, useful advertising. Also hard to find. I have no complaint with these, I just wish they'd use them more.)
(If Mac users are going to flame me for this, do the research first. Prove that I'm wrong. I'm writing this from memory so I may have made some mistakes, but "PeeCees suk, d00d!" isn't exactly going to change my mind on anything.)
Nihongo dekinai nara, ki ni shinaide.
Riiight... like that's going to do a lot of good.
Nihongo dekinai kara, kono kotoba wakaran-zo! ^^;
Sorry if my Japanese sucks, I only studied for 4 years, and I've had a year off, but...
Suimasen, demo kono posuto wa Eigo de nan desu ka?
(...aa, mou! Nihongo ga omoidashita kara... atama itte- yo!)